Economic Implications of Historically Evolved Self-Efficacy: Agent-Based Modeling and Empirical Evidence from Rural Ghana
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Keywords
Self-Efficacy; Economic Performance; Economic Development; Economic History; Cultural Evolution; Smallholder Farming;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
- N57 - Economic History - - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment and Extractive Industries - - - Africa; Oceania
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
- O21 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Planning Models; Planning Policy
- Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2015-07-11 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2015-07-11 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-EVO-2015-07-11 (Evolutionary Economics)
- NEP-GRO-2015-07-11 (Economic Growth)
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